Directly opposite the Iron Blood Studio, Zhang Lexing simply put down the online game for the time being, and first went to see how the military simulation game they were developing was doing. The start of the Iron and Blood Studio started with "Warring States Policy", and the later "Special Warfare Heroes" also had their support, but perhaps the audience for games like "Iron Ambition" was a little smaller, and the sales of "Warring States Policy" and the subsequent enhanced version were not ideal, if it was not for the successful opening of the Japanese and South Korean markets, I am afraid that even a fraction of the development cost would not be recovered. Fortunately, Zhang Lexing didn't fully expect Iron Will Studio to make any money from game development, mainly hoping that they could make some achievements in the combination of computer AI and games, so he had enough patience for the current situation of Iron Blood Studio.

When Zhang Lexing and the others walked into the Iron Blood Studio, it was a busy scene inside, with the exception of the middle of the office area, where many people were around, some of whom still had nervous expressions on their faces. Zhang Lexing walked over curiously and looked, surrounded by these people in the middle are six computers, like in an Internet café back to back, one of the computer screens several motorcycles and trucks composed of a convoy is moving fast, from the picture style seems to be some kind of game, but a little strange is that there is no one in front of the computer to operate.

Zhang Lexing searched the crowd and found Wu Qian's figure, so he walked over and patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Wu Qian, will you watch the game demo again at this time?" ”

Wu Qian rubbed his shoulder impatiently, and said impatiently: "Don't you see that I'm busy, I'll wait!" ”

After speaking, Wu Qian continued to stare at the moving picture on the screen, as if he was watching a wonderful movie, and after a while, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the voice coming from behind him just now seemed a little familiar. He couldn't help but look back, but he didn't expect to see a big boss with a smile on his face, his heart couldn't help but tremble, and he immediately smiled embarrassedly: "Boss, I didn't know you were here, that ......"

"It's okay, don't be so loud, I'm just a little curious, what are so many of you looking at?" Zhang Lexing waved his hand, signaling Wu Qian not to be so nervous and not to be too public. Fortunately, the "boss" in front of the army was not shouted too loudly, or the picture on the computer screen was so attractive that the onlookers did not notice the arrival of Zhang Lexing and others.

"Oh, this is the effect of AI autonomous control, that is, six computers to fight against each other online, as for the game that is running, it is a beta version specially designed for this, and the weapons and equipment in it are all from the Second World War, and the blueprint is a real-time strategy game that we are designing." Wu Qian was afraid that Zhang Lexing would not understand, so he added: "Well, it's a bit similar to the World War II-style real-time strategy game "Raid" from the German CDV company. ”

"Oh, but if it's computer to computer, wouldn't the result be the same every time?" Zhang Lexing is still a little strange, computer AI is just a compliment to say that there is intelligence, with the current level of technology, the so-called decision-making is basically a programmed judgment, just from the many possibilities according to the rules to make a good or bad choice, so the same AI to play the battle, the result can be said to have been determined.

Wu Qian shook his head slightly and said: "Our AI is not so simple, we have pre-learned before, and with the decision tree with relative conditional entropy enabled, the battle between the six computers is now a bit close to human decision-making. ”

"Pre-learning? Relative Conditional Entropy? Decision tree? These words spit out from Wu Qian's mouth made Zhang Lexing feel very unfamiliar, after all, the field of artificial intelligence is still far away from him, and he is just a good user of computer AI.

"Well......" Wu Qian nodded and continued to explain: "These are all made up by Mr. Yang and a few new doctoral students, in fact, I don't understand too much, according to them, it is on the standard control mechanism, that is, the rule-based system and the finite state machine, based on this, plus the classifier using genetic algorithm and fuzzy integration, as well as the learning system based on neural network and the decision-making system of relative conditional entropy, etc. Anyway, what finally came out is the AI system that supports external control and neural network composite connection, which can be applied to many types of games after minor adjustments, but the only drawback at present is that when there are many objects controlled, the system resource requirements are very high, and it cannot be directly used in games for the time being. ”

"Oh." Zhang Lexing frowned slightly, the field of artificial intelligence is still too complicated, although Wu Qian has explained, but he still doesn't fully understand, but one thing is clear, that is, this thing seems to be embedded in other games, although it is limited by the current computer performance, it cannot be used on a large scale for the time being, but it can be considered to add one or two NPCs with a relatively high degree of intelligence to some games, and it can also reduce the level of intelligence to act as computer cannon fodder when playing stand-alone games, It can even be introduced into online games, anyway, online games can be more server-friendly, you can try to make some key NPCs more humane, or make bosses more cunning to increase the challenge of the game.

At this moment, the motorized trucks displayed on the computer screen were attacked, and a sudden artillery fire blocked it on the road, followed by an infantry detachment, a single bazooka and a rain of grenades, which quickly blew up the convoy into a sea of fire, and when the reinforcements arrived, the infantry squad that instigated the attack had long disappeared. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Zhang Lexing would have really found it hard to believe that this was the result of the autonomous operation and decision-making of computer AI, and even after seeing it with his own eyes, he still couldn't believe it.

After listening to Wu Qian's introduction, Zhang Lexing walked around the office again, and after finding Yang Nanzheng, he stopped him and asked him for a long time, and it happened that the doctoral students who participated in the research happened to be there. From Yang Nanzheng and those doctoral students, Zhang Lexing asked more things, although he still didn't fully understand what the legendary "composite neural network self-learning entropy selective AI system" is composed of, but he still figured out the practical value of this AI system, judging from the current computer performance, the autonomous control limit of the AI system is 100 different units, that is to say, a computer can control a force of about 100 people for medium decision-making, And has the ability to learn the opponent's strategy and modify its own strategy according to the opponent's action rules, once the limit of 100 units is exceeded, either the depth of consideration in decision-making must be reduced, or the control of a part of the unit must be relinquished.

From this point of view, if you want to apply this AI system to a single-player game, the number of units that the AI system can control will be greatly reduced due to the actions and other processes required by the corresponding player. According to the estimation of one of the doctoral students named Qin Ming, on the current mainstream computer, the number of units that the AI system can control will be about 30, in this case it can make moderate decisions, that is, it is very close to the decision-making ability of ordinary players, plus the assistance of learning and correction functions, after a period of growth, it is possible to surpass ordinary players. If more powerful advanced decision-making is required, the number of control units will even drop to single digits, and even Chinese chess will not be able to play.

However, Zhang Lexing is still very confident in the growth rate of computer performance, and he believes that in the next two years, even if this AI system does not evolve, the direct upgrade of computer system performance alone is enough to make it have good practicality. Even now, if you can plan well, there are still opportunities to use it in many games, such as in role-playing games, which can be used to enhance the intelligence of some NPC activities in a certain town, anyway, the game protagonist cannot appear in multiple towns at the same time, and it is impossible to contact all NPCs at the same time. For example, in strategy games such as "Three Kingdoms" and "Warring States Policy", it can be used to properly assist the war scene, and I believe that with the help of learning and correcting the system, the process of fighting will be more fun. Even in real-time strategy games, you can also consider building the AI system into an intelligent NPC assistance system, which can help with auxiliary work such as resource collection and construction. In short, the role of the AI system in the game is still very large.

Zhao Haiguang also didn't understand it on the side, but from Zhang Lexing's expression, he still judged that this "composite neural network self-learning entropy selective AI system" was still very useful, otherwise his brother-in-law wouldn't have to ask so eagerly. Coming out of the Iron and Blood Studio, Zhao Haiguang deliberately walked a few steps quickly, rushed to Zhang Lexing's side, and asked in a low voice: "Lexing, what is that AI system, what is it?" ”

Zhang Lexing just noticed that Zhao Haiguang looked like he understood very well, and thought that he understood, but he didn't expect it to be worse than himself, so he had to say the content that he had heard and understood from Wu Qian, Yang Nanzheng and others as plainly as possible, and before coming to the door of Yuebai Studio, he finally let Zhao Haiguang understand what an AI system is. Originally, Zhang Lexing wanted to take advantage of this gap to talk to Zhao Haiguang about other things, but after such a fork, he had already entered Yuebai's studio, and he had to put this matter aside for the time being.

"Boss, at present, there are more than 70 developers in Yuebai Studio, which is much larger than before, and 26 of them have been to NCSoft in South Korea to participate in the development of "Paradise", and they have some experience in online game development. At present, because the game under development has faced beta testing, in addition to the people from Yuebai Studio, there are also Zhao Chang, the marketing manager from Fengyun Interactive, Zhou Haoxuan, the operation manager of Fengyun Network, Wang Tianlei, the manager of the technical support department, and Xu Ziqian, the manager of the marketing department, as well as Chen Xingchan, the manager of the market development department of Fengyun Investment Holdings. Wang Mengyao took advantage of the fact that she had just entered the door, approached Zhang Lexing, and briefly introduced the situation about Yuebai Studio: "In addition, the person who is wearing a plaid shirt and discussing problems with others is called Lu Zixuan, who is the chief numerical planner and virtual financial planner of Fengyun Network, and has participated in the design of the virtual financial system in the game "Paradise", and this time he is seconded to evaluate the financial system inside the game of Yuebai Studio......

Lv Yongcheng, the manager of Yuebai Studio, is holding on to the partition and discussing the promotion plan of "Shushan" with Zhou Haoxuan, Xu Ziqian, Zhao Chang and others, they are now a little dissatisfied with this tentative name, after all, Tsui Hark has not lined up the big production of "The Legend of Shushan" this year, and if he has not played "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and has not seen "The Legend of Shushan", few people know the place of Shushan, and using "Shushan" as the name of the game is too gimmicky to promote.

When he was discussing, Lu Yongcheng accidentally caught a glimpse of someone coming in, so he turned sideways slightly, intending to see who was coming, and when he turned his head to look, he was stunned for a moment, it was his boss Zhang Lexing who came. Lv Yongcheng was one of the first group of game developers to follow Zhang Lexing, went to the United States to "study", participated in the start-up of the creative workshop, and also participated in the development of all the games in the early days of the creative workshop.

"Boss!" Lu Yongcheng greeted excitedly.

Zhou Haoxuan, Xu Ziqian, Zhao Chang and others, who were chatting with Lu Yongcheng, followed the sound and looked over, and also found Zhang Lexing, and hurriedly said hello. Even Zhang Lexing and the others, who were walking in, all got up to say hello, and Zhang Lexing smiled and nodded one by one.

After greeting everyone, Zhang Lexing came to Lu Yongcheng, Zhou Haoxuan, Xu Ziqian, Zhao Chang and others and asked, "I heard that "Shushan" is about to prepare for beta testing, how are you preparing?" ”

Zhou Haoxuan, who is responsible for arranging the test work, said: "The beta test server is being installed and commissioned, and it is expected that it will be launched in three to five days, and the testers have been arranged, with a total of 500 people, of which 200 are from our own testing team, and the other 300 people include some game media personnel and members from Fengyun Game Club." Our plan is to have our own testing team do the first week of testing, and if nothing goes wrong, reinitialize the data, and then test the 500 people at the same time for the next month. We also have a 500-person support team, and we can increase the number of tests to 1,000 if necessary.

If there are no problems in this month's test, then we will conduct an open test for a month later, during which we will also carry out the commercial promotion of "Shushan", and arrange the relevant sales channels and ground promotion. After the successful completion of the open test, it will enter the commercial operation stage, the early stage is a 2-month free period, so that players have time to familiarize themselves with and master the game system, after the free period will start to charge, whether it is a monthly card or other forms of charging, and then according to the operation situation. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Lexing nodded with satisfaction, and then asked uneasily, "Is there any problem now?" ”

After Lu Yongcheng and Zhou Haoxuan looked at each other for a few moments, they said with a little hesitation: "We have a problem now, that is, the name of the game. ”

"Name? Is Shushan bad? Zhang Lexing felt a little strange, at least in his opinion, the name "Shushan" was still quite loud.

"We have done an investigation," Xu Ziqian took over and said: "Shushan is still relatively unfamiliar to many people, if it is replaced by "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", it will be different, but unfortunately this game has nothing to do with "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and the most influential thing is a "Legend of Shushan" TV series and a "New Shushan Swordsman" movie, which is not very helpful to the "Shushan" game, so we are considering whether to change the name. ”

In fact, Zhang Lexing doesn't mind whether to change the name of "Shushan", anyway, this is just a temporary name, and he only took into account the background information of "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", so he used the name "Shushan" easily. After thinking about it for a moment, suddenly a more interesting name popped into his mind, and he couldn't help but smile on his face......

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